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Jonah Lehrer Writes New Book on Creativity

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Imagine: How Creativity Works, the new book by Jonah Lehrer, the best-selling author of 2007’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 19. No, it’s not a sequel to Imagination First, which Eric Liu and I wrote in 2009, although it very well could be. “Creativity is not magic,” [...]

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Thinking Outside the Box–Literally

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

We’ve all heard the advice, “Think outside the box,” but now, thanks to a team of researchers, the cliché takes on a whole new, literal meaning. In a Times op-ed piece, three scholars of management and organizations—two from the University of Michigan, one from New York University (NYU)—reveal their compelling new findings about creativity. The [...]

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LCI to Join WNET Celebration of Teaching & Learning on March 16

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In three weeks, more than 10,000 North American educators will converge on the Hilton New York for WNET’s seventh annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning. The Celebration is a major professional development conference that includes over 40 featured speakers and 100 interactive workshops, as well as two exhibition halls full of education resources. This year, [...]

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Story Starters—A Deck of Cards for the Young Imagination

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In our book Imagination First, Eric Liu and I write about Oblique Strategies, a deck of cards created by musician Brian Eno in 1975: “Each of the over one hundred cards contains what Eno calls ‘a worthwhile dilemma’—a concise, cryptic prompt….meant to give direction.” Today, I bring news of another novel deck of cards, this [...]

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NASA Looks to Americans for Aerospace Innovation

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Eric Liu and I write about “challenge awards” in our book, Imagination First—prizes offered to people for accomplishing a stated task or solving a given problem. We point out the value of deliberately open-ended challenges, which create more room for bold and unexpected ideas to emerge. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program’s recent call [...]

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Harvard Innovation Lab Opens Today

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

Today marks the launch of Harvard University’s Innovation Lab, or i-lab, in Boston. In the press release, Harvard President Drew Faust describes it as “a bridge between imagination and implementation,” evoking Lincoln Center Institute (LCI’s) concept of the ICI Continuum (Imagination –> Creativity –> Innovation). So what does this new institution, another example of higher [...]

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Who’s Afraid of Creativity?

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

The Halloween season calls to mind things that frighten us (or, at least, our inner children): ghosts, goblins, haunted houses, witches, creativity. “Wait a minute,” you say. “Creativity?” Yes, according to new research, many people fear creativity and also have trouble recognizing it, whether or not they realize this.

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Imagination: The Greatest Problem Solver

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Christopher St. Clair

When hurricane Irene hit, we instinctively looked to the individuals and organizations whom we admire for their imaginative strength to do something practical, something that would instantly come to the aid of those in need, without speeches, without philosophical observations, without ideological investment in the future. Something practical—now.

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BMW and the UN Spark Intercultural Innovation

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In our 2009 book, Imagination First, Eric Liu and I discuss “challenge awards” as catalysts for imaginative thought and action. We especially like challenges that are open-ended and have broad parameters, that not only call for solutions—as those with a narrow, specific purpose do—but invite people to dream up new goals as well. The Award [...]

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Good Sportsmanship—Win to Win

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

An enhanced edition of Imagination First, the book I wrote with Eric Liu in 2009, was published in paperback on April 26th. Watching it go out into the world a second time has prompted me to revisit the question: what kind of impact would I like the book to have? A brief, breezy personal anecdote [...]

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Story Starters—A Deck of Cards for the Young Imagination

NASA Looks to Americans for Aerospace Innovation

Harvard Innovation Lab Opens Today

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